they had no home but where their mother was.'-O, there is no pity in Juggernaut! no mercy, no tenderness of heart in Moloch's kingdom! Those who support his kingdom, err, I trust, from ignorance. They know not what they do."

"As to the number of worshippers assembled here at this time, no accurate calculation can be made. The natives themselves when speaking of the numbers at particular festivals, usually say that a lack of people (100,000) would not be missed. I asked a Brahmin how many he supposed were present at the most numerous festival he had ever witnessed. 'How can I tell,' said he, 'how many grains there are in a handful of sand ?"

"The languages spoken here are various, as there are Hindoos from every country in Indi: but the two chief languages in use by those who are resident, are the Orissa and the Telinga. The border of the Telinga country is only a few miles distant from the tower of Juggernaut."

"Chilka Lake, 24th June.

66 I felt my mind relieved and happy when I had passed beyond the confines of Juggernaut. I certainly was not prepared for this scene. But no one can know what it is who has not seen it. From an eminence + on the pleasant banks of the Chilka Lake (where no human bones are seen) I had a view of the lofty tower of Juggernaut far remote; and while I viewed it, its abominations came to mind. It was on the morning of the Sabbath. Ruminat. ing long on the wide and extended empire of Moloch in the hea. then world, I cherished in my thoughts the design of some Chris. tian Institution,' which, being fostered in Britain, my Christian country, might gradually undermine this baleful idolatry, and put out the memory of it for ever."

* It will give pleasure to the reader to hear, that a translation of the Holy Scriptures is preparing in Orissa and Telinga, the languages of Juggernant, + Manickpatam.

Annual Expenses of the Idol Juggernaut, presented to the

In item third,

Rupees 69,616 £8702

the

wages of his servants,' are included the wages of the courtesans, who are kept for the service of the temple. "Item sixth.-What is here called in the official account state carriage,' is the same as the car or tower. Mr. Hunter in formed me that the three state carriages' were decorated this year (in June 1806) with upwards of 2007. sterling worth of English broad cloth.

"Of the rites celebrated in the interior of Juggernaut, called the Daily Service, I can say nothing of my own knowledge, not having been within the temple*."

Dr. Buchanan's Christian Researches in India.

"At the Temple of Juggernaut, the English government levy a tax on pilgrims as a source of revenue. The first law, enacted by the Bengal government for this purpose, was entitled "A regulation for levying a tax from pilgrims resorting to the Temple of Juggernaut, and for the superintendance of and management of the Temple.-Passed 3d of April, 1896." Another regulation was passed in Bengal, iu April, 1809, rescinding so much of the former as related to the "interior management and controul" of the Temple; but sanctioning the levying the tax from pilgrims for admission to the temple; allotting a sum toward the expenses of the idol; and appointing an officer of government to collect the tax. Of this second regulation, the author received no intimation until the third edition of his work was put to press. In the former editions, it was stated that the Temple was under the immediate management and controul of the English government; which he is now happy to find was not the fact at the time. Whether the account of the new regulation had

SECTION VII.

Morai, or Cemetery and Temple of the Australasian Islands.

ONE of the most singular discoveries which occurred to Captain Cook at Otaheite, was the sacred edifices which the inhabitants denominated Morais, and which were appropriated to the double purpose of places of worship, and sepulchres: and the name has since appeared to the learned world as extraordinary as the fact; for the word Mor-ai is literally a Greek compound Mop aid, "the region of death; though it is probable that the Australasians, as well as the Greeks, derived the term from the Sanscrit, in which it is equally to be found.

reached England before the 1st of July, 1810, when he had occasion first to notice the subject, he does not know. But he has it now in his power to communicate to the public the following authentic information, which, in justice to the honorable Court of Directors, as to the part they have taken in this matter, ought to be known.

When the Bengal government first announced their regulation of the 3d of April, 1806, to the Court of Directors, (which they did by letter, dated 16th May, 1806,) they communicated their intention of making the following alterations therein;-namely to permit "certain officers of the temple to collect their fees directly from the pilgrims agreeably to former usage, instead of receiving the amount of those fees from the public treasury: to allow the Pundits, who are to superintend the affairs of the temple, to be elected by particular classes of persons attached to it, instead of being appointed by the govern ment; and to vest in the Pundits so elected, the entire controul over the tem ple and its ministers and officers, as well as over the funds allotted for its expeuses; restricting the interference of the officers of Government to the preservation of the peace of the town, to the protection of pilgrims from oppression and extortion, and to the collection of the tax to be appropriated to the use of government."

When this subject came under the notice of the Court of Directors in the year 1808, they thought it proper to propose a distinct statement of their opinions upon it to the Bengal government; and they prepared a letter, wherein they enjoined, that the government should not elect the priests who were to superintend the affairs of the Temple, or exercise a controul over its ministers and officers, or take the management of it funds; and that the exercise of the authority of the government should extend only to objects falling directly within the province of the magistrates, as the care of the police, the administration of justice, and the collection of such a tax, professedly for these ends, as should be required for their due attainment of them; not subjecting the Hindoos to any tax for access to the place of devotion, or under the notion of granting them a religious privilege, or of tolerating idolatry,in consideration of money. The Court of Directors, how: